Thang Nguyen 555

Cultures on Collision Course

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With some short-term relief work in Asia/Africa and long stint in Telecom, Thang also earned a B.A. at Pennsylvania State University. M.A. in Communication at Wheaton Graduate School, M.A. in Cross-Cultural Communication at Gordon-Conwell Seminary, Boston. In addition, he earned a CELTA – classes taken in Hanoi for cultural re-immersion.

Tag: Wisconsin

  • Repatriation

    You can take a boy out of Texas, but you can’t take Texas out of the boy. This happens to me, not once, but twice. Culture shock upon culture shock! until I feel numbed. I jog on the street full of motorbikes (nice people would say “Co len”, bad people would try to run me…

  • Wrong Track

    I came across a brief piece about the suicide of an Orange County man. At Orange Metrolink station. Nguyen was his name. The report said he calmly stood facing the oncoming train and seconds later, got run over. No fuss, no self-preservation. I also came across that piece about victims of Temple shooting in Wisconsin. One…